Please join us Thursday, February 2nd at 8pm for a discussion on the topic, “Painting Today,” mediated by Karen Wilkin
As a supplement to our current exhibition on view at 111 Front Street Galleries Karen Wilkin will lead an open forum discussion with participating artists, Andrea Belag, Matt Blackwell, Gregory Forstner, Jill Nathanson and Larry Poons on the topic of “Painting Today.” This is a DUMBO First Thursday event and the discussion is sure to be lively. Come with a few choice thoughts on the topic ready to share!
In the event that you missed our eblast about the show here is an excerpt from the press release written by Karen
Triangle Arts Association celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding and its tenth year in DUMBO this year. WHAT ONLY PAINT CAN DO was organized to honor this double milestone. The twelve artists in the show – ANDREW BAER, FRANCES BARTH, ANDREA BELAG, MATT BLACKWELL, GREGORY FORSTNER, DAVID FRATKIN, DANA GORDON, JAMES LITTLE, JILL NATHANSON, LARRY POONS, SUMMER WHEAT, and ALUN WILLIAMS – are all alumni of Triangle’s workshop and residency programs, from various times, who live and work in the New York City area. They come from different generations, have very different backgrounds and formations as artists, and work in very different ways. The variety of their approaches is notable, ranging from Poons’s and Belag’s lush, intense explorations of the power of color and touch to Forstner’s and Wheat’s equally intense updates on figuration and narrative; from Barth’s and Nathanson’s cool, ambiguous investigations of painting languages to Blackwell’s and Williams’s quirky, modern day allegories; from Gordon’s and Little’s eye-testing riffs on dazzling color and the permutations of geometry to Baer’s and Fratkin’s complex, unstable expanses of saturated hues.
What unites these diverse artists is their decision to employ the time-honored medium of paint, in all its present day manifestations, from oil to acrylic to resins. Their multivalent works not only affirm that the physical properties of paint can have expressive, formal, and conceptual power, but they also offer proof that the medium with a long and distinguished history can be adapted to a broad spectrum of modern day conceptions of what a picture can be.
If that’s not enough…check out this great appreciation written about one of the exhibiting artists, Dana Gordon (workshop ’88), by James Panero
Dana Gordon, Untitled, 40×30″, oil on linen, 2011
Read the full appreciation here.
Dana also gave a lecture at the New York Studio School in 1999 which we think has relevance to the topic of discussion Thursday, the 2nd. You can read the lecture, entitled “Faux Populi, False Art”, by clicking here.
Finally, Kai Schiemenz (workshop ’10) is in a group show at Galerie EIGEN+ART in Leipzig on view until March 14
For more details click here.
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